How to Make Fish Food Flakes

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00:00 Title
00:05 Making fish food flakes at home is an easy but time consuming process.
I do it for my guppies.
Here you can see cups with frozen algae harvested from algae scrubber HOG.5 (http://www.santa-monica.cc/HOG5-Hang-...)
00:26 Put the algae in a blender.
This algae comes with some little critters and snails.
Add a slice of raw fish - use a different type of fish from the one you keep.
Blend it.
I add greens that people eat and greens that grow in aquariums.
Here I add peels of carrot.
Add soft parts of lettuce or whatever other green you may have.
A leaf of pothos that grows very fast goes into the blender.
I make small batches of fish food adding different ingredients to please my fish.
Filamentous algae, algae and other plants growing in my aquarium always included.    • Aloe in aquarium  
Also, guppies like to eat worms, snails, shrimps, and fish.
01:34 Add some water from an aquarium to blend it all together.
Blend it all thoroughly.
I add a full teaspoon of Red Mill Potato starch to this amount of mixture.
Blend it all thoroughly.
02:05 In this example I made about 350-400 ml of mixture.
02:25 Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
Pour the mixture on the baking sheet and spread it evenly.
02:42 I dry the mixture for 3-5 hours in the oven set on 170 F.
Check on the mixture every hour or more often to see if it is dry.
03:02 You should be able to crunch the dry mixture into a powder between your fingers.
Pull the dry mixture out of the oven.
I crunch it with my fingers to make flakes or powder.
Congratulations! We have made fish food flakes!
03:27 Store fish food flakes in a jar in a cold dark dry place.
I prefer to store it in a dispenser with a grinder.    • Fish food grinder dispenser  
03:41 In this example I made about 50 ml of fish food flakes.
Let fish taste it.
03:55 My guppy seems to like it.
I give an amount of food flakes enough for fish to eat in 2 minutes.
Making small batches of fish food allows to feed fish with different food every day of the week ;)
Fish eats healthy.
Fish poop.
Algae and plants grow in aquarium.
Then I feed it all back to the fish.
Natural cycle!
There are other ways to feed fish with what grows in aquarium - check my videos for more details.    • Algae Natural Cleaners  
Have fun and happy fish :)
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